Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Hooting Again

So, after a short break to deal with the traveling pattern, I'm back again with progress on Hoot.

I've started the second half of this front side of the biscornu (so, really, I've only finished a quarter of the whole thing!) I worked on the outer border of black and white checks, did the black of the houses and the white eyes of the owls.

Things are going well here. I've settled into a nice rhythm of staying up until dawn so I can eat and stay hydrated at my leisure, and then sleep until noon the next day. It's been very quiet and relaxing, and I've managed to do a lot of reading in the last week and a half - I think I'm on book four at the moment.

it's looking good. I love that border! I don't know how you cope with Ramadan, especially in a hot country. I was in Tunisia for work last Ramadan but I couldn't fast and had to drink water (not in sight of my colleagues - I did try to be discreet), missing meals and especially being dehydrated gives me migraines.

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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859

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"Little Sheep Virtues." Designed by Diane Williams for Little House Needleworks. Stitched on 28 ct. Coffee Jobelan with DMC threads